Celtic boss Rodgers calls for racism to be stamped out of football

Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers has called for more education to stamp out racism in football following an offensive social media post aimed at Scott Sinclair.

Sinclair expressed his revulsion after he became aware of a photograph posted online in which he is mentioned in what appears to be a racist caption.

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The picture is of a young girl standing in front of an artwork depicting monkeys and includes the caption: 'just bumped into Scott Sinclair at Edinburgh Zoo'.

A force spokeswoman for Police Scotland said in a widely released statement: "A 17-year-old woman is the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal in connection with alleged contravention of section 127 of the Communications Act 2003."

Sinclair tweeted about the post, writing: "Absolutely disgusted yet again, how can a person use a child to promote racism, it's beyond me."

Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, Rodgers said: "Racism, whether it's in football or society, there's absolutely no place for it.

"Scott has been playing the game for quite a long time and it says something that it's the first time he has come across it in his life.